"A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered on a disused railway line near his home. He has 5,000 euros in his pocket, yet in the four years since his dismissal has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence. There are many suspects, mostly at the college where he used to teach, but Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, much to the chagrin of his boss, soon becomes fixated on Lady Veronica Chalmers, who appears to have links with...

When nude pictures of Chief Constable Jeremiah Riddle's teenage daughter turn up on a pornographic website, he turns to his rival, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to find the man who took the pictures.

In the wake of a massacre outside a picturesque Yorkshire church, Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are challenged to unravel a baffling mystery involving a killer who is hiding in plain sight.

Visitors have long been drawn to the beauty and serenity of the Yorkshire countryside. Some never leave like the hiker whose decomposing corpse is discovered in a wooded valley outside the tiny village of Swainshead. It is the second such homicide to plague the region in recent years, and it is pulling investigating Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks into a dangerous mire of dark pasts, local power, and private shames. For a shocking truth and cold-blooded...

Chief Inspector Alan Banks pairs up with newly promoted detective Susan Gay to investigate a picture-perfect Yuletide murder of a victim with a secret, violent past.